distinctive regional traditions

[P Prentice]

ah monday morning - quixotic unit and it looks like rain

[Unitof1]

is it windy as well, could be the mistral.

I have tried googling to find any examples of where a client has got some high profile publicity that would have cost them an arm and a leg but probably because of me no good at computing skills I have found nothing. I think that it is impossible for archaeology to be seen as a publicity resoure for a developer. The closes that I can imagine is that they show that they have touched no archaeology which is impossible or they give money to "preserving" something that is nothing to do with their development which isnt realy archaeology.

[CARTOON REALITY]

I have tried googling to find any examples of where a client has got some high profile publicity that would have cost them an arm and a leg

Temple Bar Properties in Dublin.

[P Prentice]

is it windy as well, could be the mistral.

I have tried googling to find any examples of where a client has got some high profile publicity that would have cost them an arm and a leg but probably because of me no good at computing skills I have found nothing. I think that it is impossible for archaeology to be seen as a publicity resoure for a developer. The closes that I can imagine is that they show that they have touched no archaeology which is impossible or they give money to "preserving" something that is nothing to do with their development which isnt realy archaeology.

southport group (then he ducked)
must farm (then he smiled)
long list of environmentally sensitive projects (then he f**ted)

[Sith]

The Rose Theatre was eventually turned into a benefit for the developer after a lot of earlier adverse publicity, and the CEGB and its successors got many years of good publicity out of Wood Hall Moated Manor until they realised that they didn't need to destroy it after all.

[Dinosaur]

:face-topic: Maybe they were the Neolithic response to finding out the mother-in-law was coming 'round in 10 minutes?

Oh, a 'random' (slightly -ok so maybe not really, other pressures were at play...) selection of 6 'undated' and unloved small round holes in the landscape returned,:-

2 x early Neolithic
2 x late Neolithic
1 x Beakerish

and, errr,...

1 x early Anglo-Saxon

'fraid that was all the C14 budget I thought I could get away with on undated features with no finds or wider associations, interesting though. Those were scattered along around 15 miles of road scheme, and were all either isolated or formed one of a pair (that category included the Anglian one - have a suspicion that's a duff date though, there must be a couple somewhere in amongst a total of 40-odd dates). One was about a mile from a henge, the others anything up to 10 miles from any previously known Neolithic features

Just goes to show, anyway

Anyone got a spare couple of hundred grand so I can make a C14 lab very happy and do a proper survey of some of those ones that never seem to make the cut when it comes to trimming for publication?

[Jack]

:face-topic: Maybe they were the Neolithic response to finding out the mother-in-law was coming 'round in 10 minutes?

Oh, a 'random' (slightly -ok so maybe not really, other pressures were at play...) selection of 6 'undated' and unloved small round holes in the landscape returned,:-

2 x early Neolithic
2 x late Neolithic
1 x Beakerish

and, errr,...

1 x early Anglo-Saxon

'fraid that was all the C14 budget I thought I could get away with on undated features with no finds or wider associations, interesting though. Those were scattered along around 15 miles of road scheme, and were all either isolated or formed one of a pair (that category included the Anglian one - have a suspicion that's a duff date though,........<snip>

Duff date?
Surely you mean poorly chosen piece of intrusive carbon?

[P Prentice]

:
Oh, a 'random' (slightly -ok so maybe not really, other pressures were at play...) selection of 6 'undated' and unloved small round holes in the landscape returned,:-

2 x early Neolithic
2 x late Neolithic
1 x Beakerish

and, errr,...

1 x early Anglo-Saxon

'fraid that was all the C14 budget I thought I could get away with on undated features with no finds or wider associations, interesting though. Those were scattered along around 15 miles of road scheme, and were all either isolated or formed one of a pair (that category included the Anglian one - have a suspicion that's a duff date though, there must be a couple somewhere in amongst a total of 40-odd dates). One was about a mile from a henge, the others anything up to 10 miles from any previously known Neolithic features

Just goes to show, anyway

Anyone got a spare couple of hundred grand so I can make a C14 lab very happy and do a proper survey of some of those ones that never seem to make the cut when it comes to trimming for publication?

weirdly, have similar results from similar contexts and i always get an a/s one in any suite
waste of money really unless you use a decent sample - as jack sez

[Jack]

Yup.........

Its not how you date,
Its what you date.

[Bodger51]

Uo1 has a point in highlighting that Archaeology has been a focus for brand management.

Where the character of that brand, retains with the client as the contracts would outline, in terms of who owns reports and such.

But if your going to talk about heritage adding product value to develpments, the element of ownership has to be moved away from intellectual copyright, into the realm of intellectual property.

That resides within physical marketing of products as opposed to marketing concepts and associations.

Anyway